City v Arsenal post match thread

[MarsLlama]

Feel for Denayer but I doubt he'll play under Pep if Tosin, Fernando and Kolarov are all ahead of him.

Mangala may be on his way out but he should've started tonight over Fernando, who I rate very highly but is not a CB by a long stretch.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

My on,y worry is the fact that NONE of our senior CBs have even had any time on an actual pitch - Ota, kompany and Managala. This is my only concern as CBs require to have developed a trust/partnership , more so now than ever due to the new playing it out from the back approach.m

What is even more confusing is mangala never played for France so why not play him in pre season? The Cbs also need time to adjust to this new play it out from the back system. Friendly or not we would have got more playing oti, mangala , Denayor tonight at CB and being crap / unfit than playing fernando and kolorov.

I know it's a friendly but we start next week and this should be about being/ getting ready for that game. Defensively at least we are not there yet.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

We have to remember that Arsenal are probably the hardest premier league oponent to play with this system....were still learning with our better technical players to come back into the team....the worry is that Pep thought Kolarov and Fernando could play CB together.......hopefully lesson learnt.....lets continue to improve and judge things 3-4 games in. Its certainly going to be exciting !!

Bullshit. You have no idea why he picked them today.

 

[Dhruv1]

I guess the result isn't important but still isn't very enjoyable.
Felt it was an uncomfortable performance with some flashes of brilliance. Perfect crosses Raheem and Jesús and nice finishes Sergio and Kelechi. But thought 2 of the goals conceded were sloppy. I don't know what exactly we were trying or had planned. It will take time for us to master this style of play, but I hope to see more of the intense pressing and slick passing we saw in the other friendlies.

 

[BlueS]

work in progress, it'll all come good, no doubt.

 

[dave_blue12]

The shit that gets written on here ffs !

Grow the fuck up

We have the best coach in the world but he's not a fucking magician. It's going to take a little time to get the team playing as he wants. We may well lose some games we don't expect but in the long run it will be worth it.

Buckle up and enjoy the ride and ffs quit the moaning and making like you know better than Pep

 

[zeven]

back from the game. i needed a couple of pints after that. For my heart sake i hope i never se Fernado and kolorov as center backs again

 

[argyle]

Just to put these games in to perspective Barca lost 4-0 to Liverpool yesterday.

I'm pretty confident that wouldn't happen if they played in a competitive fixture.

I'm also confident that Pep won't play Fernando and Kolarov at centre back together!

That loss was an exception to the rule.

The same old players of ours playing badly is the rule.

Do we expect these players to suddenly be amazing in a weeks time?

 

[WengersWingMan]

Could be right, but weve not even had kompany, otamendi, mangala given a game in pre season, both teams got defensive probs. Good luck to yourselves, glad those wilshere romours went away!!!

Haha, I'm glad to keep him too despite his glass ankles. Rumours were Pep wanted to shift 1 or 2 of those CBs and bring in a 'ball playing CB', not sure what the situation on that is? Think you'll go back in for Stones? If you let teams go 4 against 3, whichever CBs will have a hard ride.

 

[BucksBlue]

BBC reporting Sterling not Aquero as first goalscorer ..... tacky journalism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37004501